Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Economy boosts moving company business
- Storage Industry Consolidation a Boon for SMBs
- Rackspace cloud storage general manager discusses the differences …
- Patriot announces network storage product
- Virtualizing the server is great but what about network I/ …
- Mind’s Eye Adds Sprinter Van to its Fleet of Fine Art Shipping …

Economy boosts moving company business
UpNorthLive.com
The trend is usually out west a lot of people are going to Arizona a lot going to Texas” say Dittmer. Besides people moving out of the area Dittmer says foreclosures are also causing people to turn to their storage units as a means of storing household items. “we’re seeing a lot of downsizing.   A lot of people using the storage units and I try not to ask people why they’re moving it but we get the occasional person that complains about the economy.

Storage Industry Consolidation a Boon for SMBs
Channel Insider
nce the acquisition closes NetApp plans to operateDataDomain as a separate product line with separate product and developmentmanagement. Critical to the success of NetApp’s current and futuresuccess is its channel and business partners particularly large integratorsthat are able to design implement and service complex storage systems. Part of the reason channel partners will take on greaterimportance to NetApp is a trend Warmenhoven is seeing in which endusersparticularly midsized companiesare moving away from direct deals andengaging more with solution providers that can deliver hosted storageinfrastructure. “If you look around the globe [. “They just wantthe service and have storage as an expense.

Rackspace cloud storage general manager discusses the differences …
Search Storage
com: What does that mean for IT expertise? Do storage experts working inside companies today shift into these cloud computing data centers?Sayegh: Instead of running storage IT administrators are going to be making decisions as to what to run inside and what to run outside the company. They’ll be more the arbiter of picking the technologies behind what they’re going to be using. Dedicated cloud which is better? There are still going to be architecture decisions but they aren’t going to have to run it. I think that’s a trend that’s very real. From an opex standpoint it makes sense to CIs.
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Patriot announces network storage product
Neoseeker
As multimedia becomes a greater focus of home networks Patriot’s new server can stream files over its gigabit Ethernet connection supports as many as three HD movies simultaneously. The Corza offers features such as a built-in FTP server making the files on the server accessible from anywhere an Internet connection is available. Memory manufacturers have been branching out into other product lines such as cooling products and power supplies but this is the first I’ve seen a memory company moving into the network storage market with a server based on hard drives. Let’s hope Patriot can bring something extra to the table with the Corza. It’ll be interesting to see additional specs on the Corza including processor and memory size. Those are two of the critical features that can set a unit above the rest of what is a fairly crowded field at this end of the market. Source: Press releaseSection: Storage Networking.

Virtualizing the server is great but what about network I/ …
InfoWorld
  While at Intel he was one of the initial researchers developing the Xen hypervisor in collaboration with academics at Cambridge University.   If anyone had the hands-on experience needed to explain this side of the industry Rolf seemed like the logical choice.  Unmanaged this growth can lead to enormous inefficiency higher expense availability issues and systems management headaches that negatively impact the company’s core business.   To address these challenges organizations are implementing a variety of virtualization solutions for servers storage applications and client environments.   These virtualization solutions can deliver real business value through practical benefits such as decreased IT costs and business risks; increased efficiency utilization and flexibility; streamlined management; and enhanced business resilience and agility.

Mind’s Eye Adds Sprinter Van to its Fleet of Fine Art Shipping …
News-antique.com (press release)
Employing the latest security and climate control technologies Mind’s Eye custom art vaults offer clients secure reliable and customizable storage options. Private and public art vaults are available for both short and long-term storage with a price range accommodating almost any budgetAbout Mind’s EyeMind’s Eye Fine Art Moving and Storage offers professional crating transporting vaulting and showcasing services for fine art and precious antiquities. A specialized division of Humboldt Storage & Moving the company benefits from over 100 years of transportation and storage experience. Their extensive list of clients includes museums and collectors from both the corporate and private sectors. Mind’s Eye is certified as an AXA Preferred Partner and a Chubb Masterpiece Preferred Provider. The company operates on one central fact: “The way we care for your art is an art form unto itself.